Games @sh.itjust.works Nemeski @lemm.ee 13h ago

Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024

www.pcgamer.com Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024

Steam's end-of-year review of what we play and how we play makes for some interesting reading.

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i always wait until the games are actually done (and priced reasonably), and that means nowadays that yeah, no 2024 games.
makes sense, most games came out before 2024
- About... 85% would you say?
I want to get Still Wakes the Deep but for what is apparently a pretty short game I'll be waiting for a better discount. that's about the only 2024 game I've been interested in
Looking through the sale trying to find ANY game that holds an interest for me... Any suggestions? Seems like a lot of trash lately.
- Great games that came out in 2024:
  
  UFO 50
  
  Peglin
  
  ANIMAL WELL
  
  Balatro
  
  2024 games that I haven't tried yet but seem promising:
  
  Pepper Grinder
  
  Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
  
  Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
  
  Rabbit and Steel
  
  Another Crab's Treasure
  
  Felvidek
  
  All are in no particular order. Dunno if you'll like those but these ones come to mind :)
  
  Rabbit and Steel
  
  I haven't had a chance to properly play it in coop, but I tried Rabbit and Steel and it is really fun.
  
  Thanks! Bought and played a lot of UFO50 already, I liked it. Bought and loved Balatro as well! I'll have to look into the others. Thanks again!
- Is Nine Sols in the sale? GOTY for me. Got overlooked by a lot of awards.
  
  Nine Sols is squarely in the "good but not fun" category for me. It is well executed but I did not enjoy most of it. Also the story is a bummer.
  
  I reinstalled Sekiro after finishing it to see if my memory was rose tinted. No, sekiro is still like music. Even cleared the "you should lose this fight" tutorial boss.
- STALKER 2 is okay. Yeah I aint got nothing else besides high grade Slav jank.
  
  It's apparently got a major patch to make it good recently! I plan on getting it next payday because of that
- Same. Yesterday I searched through Switch, PS5, GoG and Steam to find something to play during the holidays.
  
  I think I’ll just track down the Wii game "The Last Story" I never got to play.
I’m surprised it is that high.
I think all I played this year was Helldivers 2
One sale just ended and there's another... Where am I supposed to get time to play when I'm busy buying them?
Headline says 'only', but the article says that's actually an increase from last year.
- of course it is; 0% of players in 2023 played games released in 2024.
  
  Well technically with early access games, it would be >0%. Although they didn't know that back in 2023...
- Hell, I'm surprised it is over 10% with how many of the most popular games have been around for years.
  
  Even one of the biggest releases of this year was a DLC to Elden Ring, which means the actual game is still a few years old
Up from 9% last year tho...

There's a huge backlog of PC games and a lot that just play their favorites and that's it.
- 9% played 2024 games in 2023?
- I basically only have games that cost less than $5 on a sale. The prices for new games are ridiculous generally. $100 for something that will take a year to get the bugs fixed? Only suckers buy new games.
  
  Patient Gamers represent!
  
  There are pros and cons to everything. You get to play before the game gets spoiled in GOTY podcasts. You can play a multiplayer game when the most people are playing, before the game has been "solved".
STALKER 2 is the only new game I think I bought this year
Only recent games I’ve bought are helldivers 2, battlebit, and ready or not. All went bad sadly
I don't think I played any games from 2024. Scratch that, I have played a bit of rivals

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